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A friend recently asked me for advice on a problem he was facing at work. The company he works for has systems that record data to large numbers of SSDs, and then the SSDs get physically transferred to a server-type box to offload the data onto some other storage medium (eg, a large disk...

I am running a uhub-based DC++ hub on my local network. I connect to it with a client on the same network. As a result, the hub publishes my LAN IP, and not my WAN IP. As a result, WAN clients can't connect, despite port forwards being properly configured. I have configured my WAN IP in...

Hello, I have a laptop system running Windows 8 and I need to make an image of it. Rather than mess with whatever Windows 8 provides (unless its really good?), I would like to just make a simple image of the drive using linux's "dd" run from a usb boot. The problem is, that would make the...

Hello, I am wanting to use an SSD on a system without trim support. Can I get a similar effect to trim by significantly under-partitioning the drive? Say, for a 64GB drive, only partition 40GB? I would think this would ensure the drive's controller always has plenty of space for garbage...

Hello, Recently set up an ESX server with the goal of consolidating some systems - notably a fileserver and router. Specs: CPU: i5-3570 Motherboard: Asrock Pro4-M LAN NIC: Intel 82572EI GigE WAN NIC: Realtek 8168 (on the host, pfsense connected through vSwitch) pfsense VM has 2 e1000-based...

Hello, I have an intel PCI-E gigabit network card, and recently it started failing to even get a physical link (as indicated by a switch) after post( during boot it briefly flickers on then off), but only if the system it is in is cold booted (power removed, power applied, then booted). If I...

Hello, I noticed there is a lot of broadcast traffic on my network - and after capturing that traffic with Wireshark, it all seems to be coming from a single windows XP computer. Wireshark's "Info" field tells me that the machine does the following, all within 3 seconds, spaced equally: 3x...

Hello, I am having some issues with windows XP's advanced file sharing (simple file sharing disabled). Everything works fine if the user has an account on the machine, but I have not been able to make anonymous filesharing work. A user whose local username is not a valid user on the remote...

Is it possible to change the port that pfsense's IPsec runs on? My ISP blocks port 50 inbound. Thanks.

Hello, Recently, my T60 will occasionally hang (display remains constant, no mouse, no network, no flagrant system log errors) after being booted or resumed from standby. As far as I can tell, it is completely stable in all other respects, it has been run for days, even weeks, with several...

Hello, I am currently running several drives (4x500GB) in linux software raid 5 (mdadm), but as I am running out of space and my entire array can now by displaced by a single drive ( :( ), I am considering an overhaul. Currently, I am looking at an Areca ARC-1210 controller, but I am...

I have a DFI Lanparty UT nf590 SLI M2R-G, and was wondering if the NF590 sata controller supported online expansion for RAID 5. The controller is an Nvidia MCP55PXE.

I am restoring a friend's laptop, and went to copy a 92GB image off of a network server to a USB drive so that it can be read by the bootable restore cd. It got a little over halfway through before I got an "insufficient resources to complete the service" error. I have 2GB of physical ram and...

I recently got around to installing AHCI drivers on my laptop (ICH7), and to my disappointment I can no logner read smart data off my hard drive. This happened with my desktop's jmicron controller as well. Does enabling AHCI somehow preclude smart from working? Thanks for your help.

Hello, I recently installed vista (64 bit) on my T60, mainly to try it out. One of the biggest things I was looking to learn was how much power it would use vs XP. The results so far have been, well, tragic. XP will let me get down to around 13W on battery, w/o wireless, doing basic...

Hello, My friend was messing around with Cryisis's dedicated server, and while doing so, someone from the internet joined the game. There are no ports whatsoever forwarded to his computer (he is behind a router), Upnp is disabled on the router (pfsense). Does the Cryisis dedicated server...

Hello, I recently discovered that of all things my current LCD (Samsung 204B) is framey, and displays stuttering images, making watching any kind of steady motion a wrenching experience. Anyhow, I have a max of around $260 to spend on a new monitor. I would like either 1600x1200 or...

My friend is having this problem, but he does not have a real email address so he cannot register to post at the moment, and time is something of a factor, since he uses this daily. This has us both stuck, thanks for your help.

My computer (C2D E6400, Asus P5B, 2GB ram, 8600GTS, WinXP) seems to hang, only for a frame or two, when rendering video. I am using this program to test this, as it features a set of orbiting marbles on a continually rotating background. This is a fresh reformat too, i have nothing installed...

I just acquired a used Netgear GSM7224 switch, and although it is supposed to be really loud, the fans sound like they need some more oil, which is a simple fix, but can I open the case w/o voiding the warranty (which is supposedly lifetime, and I believe I can get all the documentation I need...

After a bout of World In Conflict, I noticed that my computer ( C2D E6400, 8600GTS, WinXP Pro) was "stuttering" in 3D video. It is very slight, I can *almost* dismiss it, but more than 1 other person has confirmed that there is indeed an issue. It really only seems to drop a couple of frames...

I leave my computer on at night, mainly to do things like virus scans and the like. Lately, every couple of days I have been coming back to a browser window with a website advertising AVG 8 (I am running AVG7.5 Free). I noticed a new advertisement for it in the Test Center/Control Center...

My laptop (Windows XP Sp2 Pro) suddenly (entered/resumed from standby, worked before, not after) will not get an address from DHCP. I have tried it on 3 different networks, with different DHCP servers (1 wired, 2 wireless), nothing. As soon as I statically assign an address, everything works...

This is so simple, I almost feel silly for asking it, but how many of you use the <carboard, metal, plastic> washers that come with cases for use on the motherboard screws? I personally have never used them, but as a result the screws tear up their solder pad and leave metal flakes...

I am using synergy (linux server, XP client, gigabit network), and occasionally I will experience a large (2-5 sec) lag when switching computers. There is no lag once I am on a given screen though. A quick search says it might be something to do with clipboard data, but I have been unable to...

I am finally setting up a real vista install. Anyhow, I have a few questions: 1.) What can I do to configure WGA? I have a legit copy from my school (yea MSAA) but I don't think is an excuse to stand for BS. Removing it entirely would be best, but are there executables I can just deny...

I needed to shuffle soem partitions around today, so I put in knoppix and rebooted. Simple, or so I thought. Knoppix fired up, but after detecting usb devices, it complianed that it could nto find the filesystem, and dropped me into what it called a very basic console. I did not actually...

I just step up synergy with a linux (FC6) machine as the server and a windows machine as the client (both running version 1.3.1). Everything works fine, save for one thing: the server frequently will arbitrarily lock the cursor to a single screen, and arbitrarily unlock as well. Hitting scroll...

Despite having changed nothing since last year, when I moved back to college and set up my pfsense router again, it now frequently will drop connections and generally result in internet connectivity being cut out. When this happens, I can usually tell bacause AIM (client: Trillain Basic 3) will...

On my gigabit network, I can write to my file server (Fedora Core 6 running samba) very fast, but copying files from it is extremely slow (100Mbit or less). My other winXP laptop (also gig) can transfer in both directions fine, and FTP worked fine on my desktop when i tried it. I am at a loss...

Due to some performance issue with my 7600GT's cooling, I need to under clock the card to ensure stability (RMA would take forever). That is all well and good, except the for some reason nTune will not save my modified settings when the machine is rebooted. I am sure there is a simple solution...

Having purchsed this antenna, and having tested it out on a PCI wireless card, the range achieved is excessivly disappointing, considering that the stock antenna is only 2dBi (and IIRC, that means this new antenna should be 8x as powerful). But the replacement performs (consistantly) only...

I have a virtual machine, that as of the last time it was booted worked fine. I have changed my network card since I last booted it, but reconfigured bridged Ethernet, and am able to browse the web perfectly from within it. I can also connect to the host's windows share perfectly, and can...

My fileserver, which runs Fedora Core 5, just started reporting that one of it's sata drives is bad. When I ran the tool smartctl in the os, it reported that the device was passing. here is the output of the command "smartctl -ad ata /dev/sde": smartctl version 5.36...

I am working on a dell inspiron 9300 (running win XP pro, fully updated) and for soem reason speedstep is not behaving. The procesor will run at full clock occasionally (in BIOS, sometimes in windows), but most of the time will be "stuck" at it's lowest clock of 798Mhz, even when high load...

I am considering switching from 1.5Mbps dsl to a Comcast service, most likely 8Mb. I have always felt sorry for people on cable, because practically every single person (even in my remote area) has had problems with connection speed, stability of speed, stability of connection, etc. Is this...

Is there a way to change what the connection properties window on XP shows to bytes instead of packets? Or is there some nice cumulative traffic logging software out there? All I really need is an accurate count of data transferred over a single connection. Perhpas samurize? Thanks.

I recently bought a laptop with a really nice li-ion battery, lasting around 5 hours on a full charge. I would like to keep it that way as much as possible. To that end I have read up a little and it seems as though the biggest threat is the degradation simply due to time (around 20+ percent...

My lew laptop should be arriving late this week (damn lenovo) and I am wondering what I can expect out of the graphics card. It gets around a 2K 3Dmark05, so I can't really expect much out of it, but what some roughly equivalent desktop cards? Does anyone who has one of these cards feel like...

Whenever I try to open a word document (which is associated with OpenOffice writer, Office 2003 Setup attempts to install something. It fails because I deleted the installation files (out of the office suite I only installed PP and Excel). Why is this happening?